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...Investors managing $3tn in assets are pushing food multinationals Nestlé, Danone, Kraft Heinz and Kellogg to set out new disclosures and targets on health after a successful campaign for changes at Unilever...
...Investors co-ordinated by ShareAction started to call on food companies such as Nestlé, Unilever and Kraft Heinz to improve the health of their portfolios as a result of the clear link between bad diets...
...Kraft Heinz is getting price, but only at the cost of falling volumes....
...Among big cap US stocks yesterday, some of the largest losers were snack and sweet drinks giants such as Mondelez, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Kraft-Heinz....
...Berkshire Hathaway Energy chief executive Gregory Abel and Susan Mulder, head of apparel company Nic & Zoe, will step down from Kraft Heinz’s board of directors at its annual meeting later this year, the...
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...The Trian founder has a long record of activism in the consumer goods sector, pushing forward changes at Procter & Gamble and helping to orchestrate the 2012 split of Kraft Foods into Heinz and Mondelez....
...Food company Kraft Heinz last summer halted supplies of some products to Tesco in a dispute over pricing that has since been resolved....
...Meanwhile, supplies of baked beans by Kraft Heinz to Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket chain, were temporarily imperilled....
...Companies including Tyson and Kraft Heinz have been racing to secure supplies. It is not just higher prices. Food and drinks companies may have to cut back on production, resulting in lost sales....
...Could they be doing such a thing at Kraft Heinz [in which 3G Capital owns a stake] and others?”...
...The move will hand investors in 3G’s fund the chance to sell their Kraft Heinz shares. 3G’s co-founders and partners will retain an 8 per cent stake in the consumer goods group....
...Ironically, the legacy of Polman’s defence of Unilever against Kraft Heinz’s $143bn bid probably hamstrung Jope, whose tenure has been dominated by a tug between growth and profitability....
...The split could trigger similar deals in the food sector, the analysts added, predicting that Campbell Soup and Kraft Heinz would become “more aggressive to realise value”....
...In February 2017, Umunna took to Twitter to blast Kraft Heinz’s aborted takeover of Anglo-Dutch consumer group Unilever, declaring “good riddance”....
...In the past year, multinationals including PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, Kellogg and Nestlé have been hit with shareholder resolutions on nutrition....
...BMO and Legal & General are among investors who have written to the boards of Kellogg, Danone, Nestlé and Kraft Heinz asking for greater disclosure of information about nutrition and health....
...While several larger consumer goods companies, including PepsiCo and Kraft Heinz, have experimented with direct-to-consumer businesses that sidestep retailers, most ventures in the sector are limited....
...Heinz’s takeover of Kraft created one of North America’s largest food companies, which now makes some of the US’s favourite food items, including Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and Heinz ketchup....
...Heinz almost five years ago....
...Mars’s explosive growth at a time when competitors such as Kraft Heinz and now Kellogg’s are slimming down their offerings has created more intrigue over the company’s strategy....
...Its last major deal goes back to 2015 when it combined Kraft and Heinz....
...She says this group is now targeting other food multinationals like Nestlé and Kraft Heinz. Judith EvansSo this issue has been there, kind of bubbling under for many years as obesity rates have risen....
...Nestlé’s share price has increase 64 per cent since Schneider took over, against 2.4 per cent for Unilever and a decline for Kraft Heinz....
...It echoes similar gains at Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola and General Mills, which all reported third-quarter earnings in recent weeks....
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